The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) disposes of mineral materials such as sand, gravel, and petrified wood under the provisions of the Materials Act of 1947, as amended.
The BLM needs the required information to determine if an applicant qualifies for a free use permit or must purchase the mineral materials. BLM uses sales contract Form 3600-9 to authorize the sale, and to identify the legal contractual obligations of the purchaser, the amount and type of material purchased, the location of the sale removal area, the duration and terms of the sale.
Information collected in support of the contract is used to
(1) Determine whether the sale of mineral materials is in the public interest;
(2) Mitigate the environmental impacts of mineral materials development;
(3) Get fair market value for materials sold; and
(4) Prevent trespass removal of the materials.
The BLM will contact the purchaser and conduct inspections to verify production and compliance with the terms of the sale, including the condition of the land maintained during operations and upon reclamation. In most cases, we do not require a specific form to collect the required information, because the resources differ with each location, each applicantÂs operation has unique aspects, and the amount of supporting information is kept to the minimum needed for the specific proposal in each application.
The BLM needs the required information to determine if an applicant qualifies for a free use permit or must purchase the mineral materials. BLM uses sales contract Form 3600-9 to authorize the sale, and to identify the legal contractual obligations of the purchaser, the amount and type of material purchased, the location of the sale removal area, the duration and terms of the sale.
Information collected in support of the contract is used to
(1) Determine whether the sale of mineral materials is in the public interest;
(2) Mitigate the environmental impacts of mineral materials development;
(3) Get fair market value for materials sold; and
(4) Prevent trespass removal of the materials.
The BLM will contact the purchaser and conduct inspections to verify production and compliance with the terms of the sale, including the condition of the land maintained during operations and upon reclamation. In most cases, we do not require a specific form to collect the required information, because the resources differ with each location, each applicantÂs operation has unique aspects, and the amount of supporting information is kept to the minimum needed for the specific proposal in each application.
There are several reasons for differences from the previous analysis.
In the previous collection we estimated that there would be 5,400 annual responses filed, resulting in an estimated 2,700 burden hours and $54,000 in annual costs to the public. Our analysis at that time was conducted for an information collection that included both exclusive (competitive and noncompetitive) and nonexclusive mineral materials sales contract. We have since decided to institute a program change to separate the nonexclusive sales contracts from the exclusive ones into separate Information Collection Requests (ICRs), at least until we decide which BLM form is appropriate for the nonexclusive sales.
This collection therefore includes fewer annual responses that in the previous collection, despite the fact that in addition to estimating the time and cost burden to the public for Form 3600-9 we also estimated the time and cost to the public for completing the related non-form information requirements. By instituting a program change to include the non-form requirements in our estimate of total annual burden hours and burden hour costs to the public in this collection we corrected an inadvertent omission from the previous collection. These form and non-form requirements now appear as separate Information Collections (ICs) within the ROCIS database and in this justification document. This program change resulted in an increase in burden hours of 8,935 hours from the previous collection.
The BLM also adjusted its estimate of the annual burden hour cost to respondents based on wage and benefit information for different relevant occupational categories in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the previous collection we estimated that each respondent would spend $20 (vs. $28.69 this time) per hour gathering information required for a mineral materials sales contract and related benefits (such as sampling and testing). The estimated annual burden hour costs to respondents is much higher in this collection for two main reasons: 1) the BLS wage and benefit information for the affected public ( private sector mineral materials operators) is higher that what we had previously estimated and 2) we also incorporated burden hour costs for both the sales contract form and the non-form information requirements.
We can attribute our change in non-burden hour costs to respondents from the previous collection to new BLM regulations (program change) that took effect in November 2005 authorizing the BLM to charge fees to recover our costs of processing some sales contracts. Those regulatory changes are contained in Minerals Management: Adjustment of Cost Recovery Fees Final Rule (43 CFR parts 3000, 3100, 3150, 3200, 350, 3580, 3600, 3730, 3810, and 3830). The BLM collected a total of $66,120 in cost recovery fees associated with this information collection in FY2007. In order to estimate the annual non-burden hour cost to respondents for this collection, the BLM is assuming that it will collect on average $66,120 in cost-recovery fees each year associated with this collection.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form BLM-3600-9 43 CFR 3602 Contract for Sale of Mineral Materials
Correction to 30 day notice (as published in FR).pdf
1004-0103-SupportStatement-03-27-08-FINAL.doc
43 U.S.C. 1732.txt
(Non-form) Records Maintenance (43 CFR 3602.28 )